| 单词 | pots |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPOTS POTS n. (also Pots) chiefly U.S. Plain Old Telephone Service (or System), a telephone service regarded as unsophisticated; (now, Computing) the analogue telephone network, as opposed to digital communications technologies. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > types of telephonography1889 wireless telephony1899 radio-telephony1906 touch-tone1962 mobile telephony1965 POTS1970 1970 in Federal Suppl. (U.S.) (1983) 556 891/1 If Bell had been serving all markets well (from the POTS [Plain Old Telephone service] customers to those with complex data transmission needs), the aspiring competitors might never have filed applications. 1984 J. M. Rosenberg Dict. Computers, Data Processing & Telecommunications 42/1 Basic service, at one time this phrase meant plain old telephone service (P.O.T.S.). 1995 N. Negroponte Being Digital (1996) ii. 26 The telephone companies claimed that POTS was not enough and that unless they were allowed to become broader information providers, they could not justify the enormous cost of a new infrastructure. < as lemmas |
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